Rats prefer to help their own kind. Humans may be similarly wired

New study reveals the brain mechanism that makes rats feel empathy for other rats, yet refrain from helping rats they deem to be outsiders. (Photo courtesy of Inbal Ben-Ami Bartal) A decade after scientists discovered that lab rats will rescue a

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